Selling Sickness: How the Worlds Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients Moynihan RayPaperback
Selling Sickness: How the Worlds Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients Moynihan RayPaperback Thirty years ago, Henry Gadsden, the head of Merck, one of the world's largest…
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Selling Sickness: How the Worlds Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients Moynihan RayPaperback
Thirty years ago, Henry Gadsden, the head of Merck, one of the world's largest drug companies, told Fortune magazine that he wanted Merck to be more like chewing gum maker Wrigley's. Gadsden's dream now drives the marketing machinery of the most profitable industry on earth. It had long been his dream to make drugs for healthy people so that Merck could sell to everyone.
Mild problems are redefined as serious illness and common complaints are labeled as medical conditions requiring drug treatments. Drug companies are systematically working to widen the very boundaries that define illness, and the markets for medication grow ever larger. Runny noses are now allergic rhinitis, PMS has become a psychiatric disorder, and hyperactive children have ADD.
When it comes to conditions like high cholesterol or low bone density, being at risk is sold as a disease. Selling Sickness reveals how